The Results: 2012 Patient Flow Challenges Assessment
Real World Perspectives from Health Care and Industry Executives

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  • Event Time: 1 p.m. Eastern

Understand why and how improving patient flow supports the changes hospitals must make to address unparalleled economic, demographic and regulatory pressures. According to the document Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future, improving efficiency through better productivity and financial management was among the ten must-do implementation strategies.

According to the 2012 Patient Flow Challenges Assessment, health care organizations are concerned that poor patient flow puts their patients, their reputation and their financial viability at risk. Learn how health care executives are approaching these challenges, their efforts in improving them, and learn from a panel of industry leaders about the processes, services and technologies that improve patient flow and operational performance.

 

What You Will Learn:

Key Findings: PFCA 2012

  • The top concerns and initiatives health care organizations are addressing across the eight stages of patient flow
  • How patient flow is affected by the expanding focus of accountable care in communities
  • What causes poor patient flow and its effect on organizational performance

 

Perspectives: Peers and Industry Leaders

  • How organizations are approaching the challenges to patient flow and the results they've garnered
  • Processes, services and technologies to solve patient flow challenges in support of the hospital of the future
  • Solutions that improve communications, visibility to data and patient engagement … root causes for poor patient flow

 

Initiatives: The AHA and AHA Solutions

  • Why AHA Solutions conducts the Patient Flow Challenges Assessment and how it affects you
  • About the Hospitals and Health Care Systems of the Future initiative and the competencies needed to support it
  • How you can use the information presented to improve patient flow and drive transformation in your organization

  

Hospital and Care System Panel:

  • Brett V. Daniel, MD, Family Medicine, Pacific Medical Center
  • Stephen A. Knych, MD, MBA, Division Chief, Patient Safety and Clinical Excellence, Florida Hospital, Celebration Health, Senior Patient Safety Officer, Florida Hospital 8 Campus System
  • Ricki Stajer RN MA CPHQ, Administrator, Care Management, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
  • Sue Simpson, Senior Field Representative, AHA Solutions, Inc., Moderator

 

Thought Leader Panel:

  • Edward Boudreau, DO, Chief Medical Officer, BMGI Corporation
  • Robert R. Corrato, MD, MBA, President & CEO, EHR Executive Health Resources
  • Christine Gamlen, RN, MSN, Chief Nursing Officer, Vocera Communications, Inc.
  • Charlotte M. Miller, BSN, MBA, RN-BC, Director, Nursing Informatics, AeroScout
  • David Wright , Ph.D., Chief Outcomes Officer, GetWellNetwork
  • Mary Longe, Director, Patient Flow, AHA Solutions, Inc., Moderator

AHA Solutions Signature Learning Series events are exclusively offered to hospital personnel. There is no charge to attend.

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